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One-dimensional classical scattering processes and the diffusion limit
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2016
Abstract
The method of Skorokhod embedding, that is to say of coupling to Brownian motion, is used to establish the asymptotic behaviour of one-dimensional scattering processes.
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